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The Global Struggle for LGBTQ Rights: Legal, Political, and Social Dimensions American University Washington College of Law Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals Scholarship & Research 2016 The Global Struggle for LGBTQ Rights: Legal, Political, and Social Dimensions Macarena Saez American University Washington College of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, International Law Commons, Law and Gender Commons, Law and Society Commons, Religion Law Commons, and the Sexuality and the Law Commons Recommended Citation Saez, Macarena, "The Global Struggle for LGBTQ Rights: Legal, Political, and Social Dimensions" (2016). Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals. 1770. https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/facsch_lawrev/1770 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Scholarship & Research at Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SYMPOSIUM THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS: LEGAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS 229 230 WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER [Vol. 37 On Friday, April 10, 2015, activists, lawyers and scholars gathered at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey to reflect on their work in the LGBTQ movement, discuss the movement's progress and share strategies for the future. The conference brought scholars from all areas of the academe together with activists to discuss the movement on a global level. We were excited to open the conference with welcoming remarks from Mariela Castro Espin, Director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) and to close the conference with a keynote address from Manuel Vizquez Seijido, Head of the Legal Advisory Group, Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX), and Coordinator of the Legal Services Orientation Institution. CENESEX's work to eradicate homophobia and transphobia in Cuba and other countries in the developing world is significant. I learned about CENESEX several years ago when a Latina law student, who was active in the LGBTQ movement, joined our law school group travelling to Havana and encouraged us to visit. My students and I were immediately drawn to and excited by their work. This conference took place at an important time. It occurred just prior to President Obama's historic steps to normalize relations with Cuba and, months before the U. S. Supreme Court's historic decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. _ (2015). There are many people to thank for the success of this conference. However, it certainly would not have been possible if not for the law school's support and continuing educational relationship with CENESEX and the National Association of Cuban Jurists. As always, the Law School staff did everything we asked of them and everything we forgot to ask but had to be done, including maintaining an open telephone line to Havana and arranging last minute passage for our Cuban guest. Rutgers Law students, especially the Staff of the Women's Rights Law Reporter, worked hard to ensure this conference was a success. I must thank the staff at the U.S. Interests Section (now the US Embassy) who went above and beyond to ensure that our keynote speaker was permitted to enter the United States which ONLY happened because of their amazing efforts! I am also grateful to the leading and emerging scholars and activists who shared their work with us, enriching the lives of those in attendance. Finally, the conference took shape from the efforts of the conference organizing committee. Each of the committee members helped to mold this event and give it important substance. The committee members were: Nicole Auffant, Carlos Ball, Stuart Deutsch, Janet Donohue, Susan Feathers, Maren Greathouse, Reid Weisbord and me. No. 3/4] The Global Strugglefor LGBTQ Rights 231 The LGBTQ movement is one of the preeminent civil rights movements of our times. I dedicated this conference to all the persons of the LGBTQ communities who have been mistreated, suffered abuse and died as a result of discrimination. You are not forgotten.. .we ALL stand on your shoulders. In loving memory of Alexander "Corky" & Douglas "Dougie" Feig. La Lucha Sigue! Charles I. Auffant TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW - NEWARK FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015 232 No. 3/4] The Global Strugglefor LGBTQ Rights 233 RONALD CHEN: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Rutgers University and to Rutgers Law Newark. I'm Ronald Chen, Acting Dean of the Law School.' It's my great pleasure to welcome everyone: students, distinguished panelists, and all attendees to this event-for which we have been very excited to plan for some time now. This topic is obviously one of critical importance to lawyers, politicians, and particularly at this time in our nation's history and our world development. We all know, for in- stance, that the United States Supreme Court is currently considering con- solidating cases on the issue of marriage equality. 2 A number of you may have seen Adam Botek's column a few days ago noting two briefs that were filed in that case. Although they were not consistent with the result they would reach, their theme speaks very much to the theme of this con- ference, which is the role of global law in the development of equality for the LGBTQ community in all aspects. I think we can learn a lot and hope- fully the Court, particularly Justice Kennedy, if he is listening, will learn a lot from international global perspectives and how they should inform us on the development of our domestic rules regarding LGBTQ equality. This is an event for which we have assembled a wide variety of highly distinguished panelists. Foreign relations being what they are, a little bit of excitement has even been injected, so we will see how the day plays out with regard to the ability of some planned panelists to be here or whether they are still in Cuba. But with that, again I want to welcome everyone. A housekeeping matter: what is usually the women's restroom on this floor, which is around here down the hallway past the exit sign, has today been designated a gender-neutral rest facility. If there are no other housekeeping matters, welcome, and I look forward to the first panel. WHITNEY STRUB: Hello. My name is Whitney Strub. I'm the di- rector of Women's and Gender Studies here at Rutgers Newark, and an as- sociate professor in the History Department.3 It is my absolute delight to moderate our first panel today: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Global LGBTQ Movement. While we get set up, I will introduce our speakers. In not quite the order on the program, first is going to be Ben Sifuentes from the Department of American Studies at Rutgers New Brunswick.4 Ben's research interests include Latino literature and culture, 20th Century Latin American literature and cultural studies, gender theory and sexuality Ronald K. Chen, Faculty Profile, RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW, http://wwww.law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/ronchen (last visited Oct. 12, 2016). 2 Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (U.S. 2015). Profile: Whitney Strub, RUTGERS-NEWARK COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, http://www.ncas.rutgers.edu/whitney-strub (last visited Oct. 12, 2016). 4 Profile: Ben Sifventes-JAuregui, RUTGERS SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES, http://amerstudies.rutgers.edu/ben-sifuentes-j auregui (last visited Oct. 12, 2016). 234 WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER [Vol. 37 studies, and psycho-analysis. He is the author of Transvestism, Masculin- ity, and Latin American Literature,5 and the very recently published Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives,6 which has a fantastic covering and which, by the way, you need to check out. His next research projects are going to deal with the relationship between melo- drama and masochism in a series of Latino-American novels, perform- ances, films and essays, as well as another project on the intersection be- tween Latino literature and psycho-analysis. Following Ben's talk, next will be Anahi Russo-Garrido, who is the Al- len-Berenson postdoctoral fellow in Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University.7 She holds a Ph.D. in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University, and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Con- cordia University in Canada.8 She's been a visiting scholar at the National University of Mexico City. 9 Her research currently focuses on queer inti- macy in Mexico City, gender and sexuality in Latin American, change and queer and feminist theory. She's worked with women's rights organiza- tions in Mexico, Canada, and the United States, and is the co-editor of Building Feminist Movements and Organizations.0 Anahi has also pub- lished articles on queer Mexico City in Women's Studies Quarterly, NWSA Journal, and the Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies.I1 Third on our panel is going to be Carlos Ulises Decena, who is an asso- ciate professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rut- gers New Brunswick. 12 He's an interdisciplinary scholar whose work straddles the humanities and social sciences, and whose intellectual pro- jects engage and blur the boundaries of critical ethnic, queer and feminist studies in social justice.13 His first book, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-sex Desire Among Dominican Immigrant Men14 was published by BEN SIFUENTES JAUREGUI, TRANSVESTISM, MASCULINITY, AND LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE (2002). 6 BEN SIFVENTES JAUREGUI, THE AVOWAL OF DIFFERENCE: QUEER, LATINO AMERICAN NARRATIVES (SUNY Press, 2014).
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